[tweetmeme]The R.E.M. concert documentary “This Is Not a Show: Live at the Olympia in Dublin” — which is included in the 2CD/1DVD editions of the band’s new live album, Live at the Olympia — will make its television debut at 9 p.m. EST Dec. 28 on the Sundance Channel, according to a recent post on [...]
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Dec
2009
R.E.M. ‘This Is Not a Show’ concert film to screen on Sundance Channel next week
Tags: Accelerate, Dublin Working Rehearsals, Jeremiah, Live at the Olympia, Michael Stipe, R.E.M, Sundance Channel, This Is Not a Show, Vincent Moon
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Oct
2009
R.E.M. ‘This Is Not a Show’ concert film to receive limited theatrical screenings
Tags: Accelerate, Dublin Working Rehearsals, Jeremiah, Live at the Olympia, Michael Stipe, Olympia Theatre, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Vincent Moon
In conjunction with this month’s release of its Live at the Olympia album, R.E.M. is presenting “This Is Not a Theatrical Release,” a series of limited sneak-preview screenings across the country of the “un-concert documentary” being packaged with the special 2CD/1DVD edition of its new live album.
Directed by Vincent Moon and Jeremiah (who produced the [...]
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Aug
2009
Video: R.E.M., ‘Drive’ from forthcoming ‘Live at the Olympia’ bonus DVD
Tags: Accelerate, Automatic for the People, Drive, Dublin Working Rehearsals, Live at the Olympia, R.E.M.
R.E.M. has posted a second preview of its upcoming 39-song, 2CD Live at the Olympia album, a video of the band performing Automatic for the People opener “Drive.” Due out Oct. 26, the CD/DVD package was culled from five nights of “working rehearsals” in Dublin in 2007 that preceded the recording of [...]
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Aug
2009
Video: R.E.M., ‘Living Well is the Best Revenge’ from ‘Live at the Olympia’
Tags: Accelerate, Dublin Working Rehearsals, Live at the Olympia, Living Well is the Best Revenge, R.E.M.
R.E.M. is offering fans a preview of its upcoming 39-song, 2CD Live at the Olympia album with a video of the set’s opening track, Accelerate cut “Living Well is the Best Revenge.” The video is from the bonus DVD that will be packaged with the deluxe version of the live album, due out Oct. [...]
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Aug
2009
R.E.M. ‘Live at the Olympia’ tracklist revealed; 39-song, 2CD set due Oct. 26
R.E.M. this week revealed the tracklist for its 39-song, 2CD Live at the Olympia, an album — due out Oct. 26 — that was culled from five nights of “working rehearsals” in 2007 that preceded the recording of last year’s hard-rocking comeback Accelerate.
The impressively deep tracklist — don’t be looking for the hits on [...]
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Jun
2009
R.E.M. previews live album with ‘Reckoning Songs From the Olympia’ digital EP
Tags: Dublin Working Rehearsals, Live at the Olympia, R.E.M., Reckoning, Reckoning Songs Frmo the Olympia
R.E.M. next month will give fans a preview of its forthcoming 2CD Live at the Olympia with a digital EP called Reckoning Songs From the Olympia that collects four songs from the just-reissued Reckoning that the band performed during its 2007 “Dublin Working Rehearsals.”
To be released on iTunes and other digital services July 7, the [...]
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Mar
2009
R.E.M. planning ‘Reckoning’ reissue, ‘Dublin Working Rehearsals’ live album
Tags: Accelerate, Bill Rieflin, Dublin Working Rehearsals, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Murmur, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Reckoning, Scott McCaughey
With touring and promotion of 2008’s Accelerate now finished, R.E.M. this year will issue, at a minimum, a pair of archival releases, hitting both ends of its long and fruitful career.
According to a post on the band’s Web site, R.E.M. is preparing a deluxe edition of 1984’s Reckoning that “will be done in the same [...]
